Bernard Shaw: A Life (Florida Bernard Shaw) by A. M. Gibbs

Bernard Shaw shaped public photographs of himself that belied the character and intensity of his emotional reviews and the complexity of his highbrow outlook. during this soaking up biography, famous Shavian authority A. M. Gibbs debunks a number of the parts that shape the root of Shaw's self-created legend--from his formative years (which was once no longer the loveless adventure he claimed publicly), to his sexual relationships with a number of girls, to his marriage, his politics, his Irish id, and his arguable philosophy of inventive Evolution.

Drawing on formerly unpublished fabrics, together with never-before-seen photos and early sketches through Shaw, Gibbs deals a clean viewpoint and brings us nearer than ever earlier than to the individual at the back of the masks.

Puerto Rican writers residing within the usa and writing in English locate themselves astride cultures, languages, and methods of taking a look at existence. in addition they locate units of prejudice: racial, cultural, and linguistic bias within the usa; and rejection from Puerto Rican society. during this vivid number of interviews, Hernandez offers photos of 14 of the main trendy Puerto Rican writers dwelling within the usa and gives the 1st probability for them to talk at once approximately their lives and their literary culture.

Whereas literary utopias depict a fantastic society and replicate an confident trust within the triumph of humanity and govt, dystopias current a society marked by way of anguish because of human and political evils. This publication bargains a close research of numerous literary dystopias and analyzes them as social feedback.

This learn, the 1st of its variety in English, units out to examine literature as a sort of social verbal exchange by means of contemplating advancements in literary thought and perform within the German Democratic Republic within the Honecker period. recognition specializes in the adjustments within the discourses of literary conception and literary perform in a semi-public sphere managed via an more and more ossified political discourse.

Harold okay. Bush's carrying on with Bonds with the lifeless examines the profound transfiguration that the demise of a kid wrought at the literary paintings of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his matters Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bush demonstrates how the dying of a kid turned the defining "before-and-after second" of their lives as adults and as artists.